USA’S INVOLVEMENT IN EUROPE

Question 1

JAN 1947- BIZONIA IS CREATED-WHAT HAPPENED?

Answer 1

-BRITAIN AND THE US MERGE THEIR ZONES OF GERMANY
-GERMANY WAS ABLE TO RECEIVE MARSHALL AID BUT NOIT THE USSR CONTROLLED PARTS

Question 2

JUNE 1947-MARSHALL PLAN WHAT WAS THIS AND WHAT WAS ITS SIGNIFICANCE?

Answer 2

-ECONOMIC AID TO ANY COUNTRIES FIGHTING COMMUNISM
-AMERICA BECOMES DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN EUROPES ECONOMY
- THE US THOUGHT TTHAT AN ECONOMICALLY WEAK EUROPE WOULD BE A BREEDING GROUND FOR COMMUNISM
-BETWEEN 1947-52 THE MARSHALL PLAN WOULD PROVIDE £13 BILLION IN AID TO 16 COUNTRIES
- A CONDITION OF RECEIVING MARSHALL AID WAS THAT PART OF THAT MONEY HAD TO BE SPENT ON IMPORTING AMERICAN GOODS

Question 3

HOW DID THE SOVIETS VIEW THE MARSHALL PLAN?

Answer 3

THE SOVIETS SAW THE MARSHALL PLAN AS A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM AND WORRIED THAT US INFLUENCE WOULD SPREAD IN EUROPE AND AFFECT THEIR SATELLITE STATES
= MOLOTOV STATED THAT THIS WAS DOLLAR IMPERIALISM-YUGOSLAVIA ACCEPTED MARSHALL AID AND TITO WAS EXPELLED FROM COMINFORM DUE TO CHALLENGING STALINS CONTROL-DROVE THE USSR TO REALISE THAT COOPERATION WITH THE US WAS HIGHLY UNLIKELY
- FELT THAT ACCEPTING MARSHALL AID WAS HELPING THE US EXPAND THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE UNDER THE GUISE OF KINDNESS

Question 4

• WHAT WAS THE SOVIETS RESPONSE TO THE MARSHALL PLAN?

Answer 4

• COMINFORM SEPT 1947- IN STALINS VIEW, 2 CAMPS HAD CLEARLY EMERGED AND THE SOVIET SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN EUROPE HAD TO BE CONSOLIDATED, COMINFORM WAS MADE TO UNITE AND COORDINATE THE ACTIONS OF COMMUNIST GROUPS THROUGHOUT EUROPE SO THAT SO THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTY FUNCTIONED AS A WHOLE UNDER RUSSIA
  -1949-COMECON RESPONSE TO THE MARSHALL PLAN STRENGTHEN THE USSR’S RELATIONSHIP ON AN ECONOMIC LEVEL